Contents -- Foreword -- Executive summary -- Origins of the study -- Formal terms of reference -- The use of the "functions of a national system of innovation" as a policy framework -- CONICYT and policy development -- Policy issues emerging from the review -- Background to the study -- I. Introduction -- Origins of the study -- Formal terms of reference for the study -- Structure of the report -- II. Methodology -- General approach -- Use of the "functions of a national system of innovation" as a policy framework -- The concept of "stakeholders" in a national system of innovation -- Structure of the interview set -- Limitations in the interview set -- III. An overview of Chile's national system of innovation -- Policy, resource allocation, and regulatory processes -- IV. Governmental processes for science, technology, and innovation policy formulation -- Financing mechanisms within the national system of innovation -- V. CONICYT, FONDECYT, and FONDEF -- CONICYT and the context for evaluating its main funding instruments -- FONDECYT -- FONDEF -- CONICYT and its responsibility for policy development -- VI. Other financing bodies -- Funds coordinated by PIT -- Scholarships -- Funding from the business sector -- Funding by regional governments -- Performance within the national system of innovation -- VII. Principal science and technology institutions of the national system of innovation -- The universities -- Technological institutes -- Firms in the private and public sectors -- Human resource development -- VIII. The development and use of human resources in the national system of innovation -- Learning and the national system of innovation -- The challenges of human resource development in Chile -- Training and the role of technical colleges -- Introducing new technological skills into enterprises -- The availability of research management skills.

Rejuvenation of the research community -- The Ministry of Education's program on quality and equity in higher education -- Infrastructure -- IX. Institutions providing the infrastructure for the national system of innovation -- Standards and metrology -- Intellectual property -- Telecommunications and Internet infrastructure -- Libraries -- Major facilities for big science - the observatories -- Analysis of issues within the national system of innovation -- X. Emerging issues -- Institutional governance -- The need for prioritization -- Technology for small- and medium-scale enterprises -- Promoting an Innovation "culture" in Chile -- Support for the social sciences -- Health research -- XI. An innovation policy agenda for Chile -- A first discussion of the findings -- Introduction -- The sessions -- Concluding remarks -- Appendices -- Appendix 1: Members of the study team -- Appendix 2: Schedule of interviews -- Appendix 3: The functions of a national system of innovation -- Appendix 4: Groupings of stakeholders in Chile's national system of innovation -- Appendix 5: Some examples of human resource development programs from outside Chile -- Appendix 6: Acronyms -- References.